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Alumni golfing
Our alumni golf team has been out on the greens again, with two recent fixtures. The college had two alumni golf outings in March and April in what has now become an established annual tradition. First up was the Hertfor...
Mary Beard gives John Donne Lecture 2019
On Friday 26 April, the Principal and Fellows of Hertford College were delighted to welcome Professor Dame Mary Beard to Oxford for the John Donne lecture 2019. The lecture titled ‘What is the point of Classics?...
Students and alumni go head to head in Tanner race!
On Saturday 27 April, students and alumni of Hertford College Boat Club went head-to-head in a race to commemorate Neil Tanner’s legacy at Hertford and support of HCBC. The crews raced twice from Univ boat house to Her...
Double Pulitzer Prize honours
A recent biography of Hertford alumnus Alain LeRoy Locke has been awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Biography in a ceremony at Columbia University in New York City. Meanwhile, alumna Carole Cadwalladr was recogn...
Scientist of distinction
Professor Dame Kay Davies, Dr Lee’s Professor of Anatomy and Fellow at Hertford, has been recognised for the excellence of her research and the profound impact it has had, both in the scientific community and wider...
Best student project at surgeons’ conference
Medicine student Chloe Jackson recently presented her research project on prostate cancer detection and treatment at the International Surgical Conference in Belfast. Chloe’s project was shortlisted in the top 12 m...
Oxford to London Challenge Success
Congratulations to all the Hertford rowers who took part in the Oxford to London challenge row. Members from all the Hertford Boat Club crews took part in this 100-mile odyssey to the capital along the Thames, navigating...
Baroness Mary Warnock, CH, DBE, FBA (1924-2019)
Hertford College is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of honorary fellow and noted philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock, who died on Wednesday. Born Helen Mary Wilson in Winchester, she was the youngest of seven child...
Martin Maiden admitted as Senior Proctor
Professor Martin Maiden, one of our Tutorial Fellows in Biology, was today admitted as the University of Oxford’s Senior Proctor in an ancient ceremony at the Sheldonian Theatre. The University’s Proctors and...
Women’s crew rowing to victory
Not since Bucks Fizz won Eurovision for Great Britain, since Charles and Diana got engaged, since ‘Chariots of Fire’ was released, or since the first ever Homebase opened, has the Hertford College Boat Club w...